Malaysian duo Joachim Chuah and Yasshmita Jadishkumar both celebrated their maiden Diamond-level victories on the PSA Squash Tour getting past their opening opponents at the Egyptian Open in Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Qualifier Chuah, who recently graduated from college and is competing in his first full season on the PSA Squash Tour, backed up his recent NASH Cup title win with a comprehensive three-game victory over Swiss veteran Nicolas Mueller. The 22-year-old\u2019s opponent in tomorrow\u2019s second round will be World No.1 Mostafa Asal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucky Loser Jadishkumar, meanwhile, defeated Egypt\u2019s Mariam Metwally by an 11-9, 12-10, 11-7 scoreline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Egyptian 18-year-olds Marwan Assal and Ruqayya Salem scored a pair of major seeding upsets on the opening day, defeating Baptiste Masotti and Rachel Arnold respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other notable winners on the opening day in Cairo were Patrick Rooney and Yannick Wilhelmi, who came through tense five-game encounters with Curtis Malik and Toufik Mekhalfi, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucky Loser Assal claimed his first-ever World Events victory on the PSA Squash Tour after the World No.90 fought back from a game behind to stun World No.20 Masotti by a 9-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-6 scoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assal, the younger brother of current World No.1 Mostafa, had suffered a gruelling 96-minute defeat to Ibrahim Elkabbani in the qualifying finals earlier this week at O West Sporting Club. However, he made the most of his second opportunity to set up a second-round tie with No.14 seed Yahya Elnawasany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling so happy right now. I played some super squash today,\u201d Assal said after the match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m really exhausted from this match, and before yesterday in qualifying I had such a tough match, 96 minutes, and I\u2019m a Lucky Loser from that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLucky Loser means a lucky shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI played very well today and I\u2019m so happy with my performance. I\u2019m really looking forward to my next match.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, World No.55 Salem secured her second win from as many meetings with the in-form World No.22 Arnold, who recently pulled off a major upset over eight-time Nour ElSherbini at the Qatar Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Egyptian teenager replicated her four-game win over the Malaysian at last year\u2019s British Open with an equally impressive victory today, coming from a game behind to seal her spot in the second round by an 12-14, 11-9, 14-12, 11-4 scoreline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men\u2019s Round One<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Q] Joachim Chuah (MAS) bt Nicolas Mueller (SUI) 3-0: 11-3, 11-6, 11-4 (26m) Women\u2019s Round One<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nadien Elhammamy (EGY) bt Nour Aboulmakarim (EGY) 3-0: 11-5, 11-5, 11-5 (30m) Malaysian duo Joachim Chuah and Yasshmita Jadishkumar both celebrated their maiden Diamond-level victories on the PSA Squash Tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
Sam Todd (ENG) bt Adham Roshdy (EGY) 3-1: 13-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-7 (71m)
Juan Vargas (COL) bt Ibrahim Elkabbani (EGY) 3-2: 9-11, 11-9, 11-8, 2-11, 11-5 (65m)
Dimitri Steinmann (SUI) bt Matias Knudsen (COL) 3-0: 11-3, 11-5, 11-4 (32m)
Karim El Hammamy (EGY) bt Ivan Perez (ESP) 3-1: 9-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-4 (65m)
Declan James (JAM) bt Alex Lau (HKG) 3-1: 11-5, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5 (46m)
Kareem El Torkey (EGY) bt [Q] Yassin Shohdy (EGY) 3-1: 11-8, 11-7, 9-11, 11-5 (52m)
Gregoire Marche (FRA) bt Balazs Farkas (HUN) 3-0: 11-4, 11-5, 11-2 (24m)
Patrick Rooney (ENG) bt Curtis Malik (ENG) 3-2: 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 8-11, 12-10 (65m)
Veer Chotrani (IND) bt Moustafa Elsirty (EGY) 3-0: 11-7, 11-5, 11-3 (33m)
Auguste Dussourd (FRA) bt [Q] Seif Refaay (EGY) 3-2: 11-6, 6-11, 11-9, 2-11, 11-9 (75m)
Timothy Brownell (USA) bt [WC] Ismail Amr Abdellatif (EGY) 3-0: 11-3, 11-5, 11-7 (28m)
Velavan Senthilkumar (IND) bt Bernat Jaume (ESP) 3-0: 11-5, 11-2, 11-4 (28m)
[LL] Marwan Assal (EGY) bt Baptiste Masotti (FRA) 3-1: 9-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-6 (55m)
Greg Lobban (SCO) bt Raphael Kandra (GER) 3-0: 11-8, 11-9, 13-11 (44m)\u00a0
Yannick Wilhelmi (SUI) bt Toufik Mekhalfi (FRA) 3-2: 11-8, 11-8, 11-13, 8-11, 11-9 (86m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grace Gear (ENG) bt Katie Malliff (ENG) 3-1: 11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-2 (38m)
[LL] Yasshmita Jadishkumar (MAS) bt Mariam Metwally (EGY) 3-0: 11-9, 12-10, 11-7 (35m)
Zeina Mickawy (EGY) bt Habiba Hani (EGY) 3-1: 11-9, 11-2, 9-11, 11-2 (39m)
Anahat Singh (IND) bt [WC] Habiba Rizk (EGY) 3-1: 11-5, 11-4, 5-11, 16-14 (44m)
Torrie Malik (ENG) bt Nardine Garas (EGY) 3-1: 9-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-7 (37m)
Nada Abbas (EGY) bt Hollie Naughton (CAN) 3-1: 8-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-5 (42m)
[WC] Nadia Mahmoud (EGY) bt Malak Khafagy (EGY) 3-2: 7-11, 6-11, 11-5 ret. (38m)
Kenzy Ayman (EGY) bt Ka Yi Lee (HKG) 3-0: 11-6, 11-6, 11-9 (21m)
Hana Ramadan (EGY) bt [Q] Nour Khafagy (EGY) 3-0: 11-8, 11-5, 13-11 (37m)
[Q] Ruqayya Salem (EGY) bt Rachel Arnold (MAS) 3-1: 12-14, 11-9, 14-12, 11-4 (44m)
Tomato Ho (HKG) bt Aira Azman (MAS) 3-2: 11-7, 7-11, 4-11, 11-6, 11-4 (40m)
Lucy Turmel (ENG) bt [Q] Xin Ying Yee (MAS) 3-1: 11-9, 11-4, 4-11, 11-5 (41m)
Sana Ibrahim (EGY) bt [LL] Tanvi Khanna (IND) 3-0: 11-4, 11-7, 11-3 (30m)
Hana Moataz (EGY) bt Marta Dominguez (ESP) 3-0: 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 (34m)
Amina El Rihany (EGY) bt Nour Heikal (EGY) 3-2: 11-9, 11-2, 9-11, 9-11, 11-8 (59m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"